SQL Contract Job Trends in Bristol

SQL (Structured Query Language)
South West > Bristol

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Bristol requiring SQL skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 24 29 23
Rank change year-on-year +5 -6 0
Contract jobs citing SQL 53 42 70
As % of all contract jobs in Bristol 6.59% 5.62% 6.77%
As % of the Programming Languages category 25.48% 19.72% 24.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 27 52
10th Percentile £355 £350 £400
25th Percentile £422 £378 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £463
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -2.70% -5.61%
75th Percentile £557 £563 £603
90th Percentile £581 £693 £686
South West median daily rate £475 £500 £513
% change year-on-year -5.00% -2.44% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 2
10th Percentile - - £51.57
25th Percentile - £25.26 £55.79
Median hourly rate - £27.13 £66.64
Median % change year-on-year - -59.29% +8.35%
75th Percentile - £37.87 £77.55
90th Percentile - £53.85 £81.81
South West median hourly rate £36.00 £30.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year +20.00% -33.33% -20.60%

All Programming Languages
Bristol

SQL falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring coding skills in Bristol.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 208 213 283
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 25.87% 28.51% 27.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 110 90 185
10th Percentile £310 £355 £313
25th Percentile £405 £416 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £509 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year +1.75% +5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £589 £624
90th Percentile £639 £676 £700
South West median daily rate £525 £535 £525
% change year-on-year -1.87% +1.90% -1.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 61 54 40
10th Percentile £61.25 £61.25 £55.88
25th Percentile - £65.00 -
Median hourly rate £65.00 £66.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.26% +2.31% -0.76%
75th Percentile £67.25 £68.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £74.00 -
South West median hourly rate £65.00 £66.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year -2.26% +2.31% -

SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing SQL relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol.

SQL job vacancy trend in Bristol

SQL
Daily Rate Trend in Bristol

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing SQL.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing SQL

SQL
Daily Rate Histogram in Bristol

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SQL in Bristol over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SQL in Bristol

SQL
Hourly Rate Trend in Bristol

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing SQL.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing SQL

SQL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bristol by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 7 (13.21%) Oracle Application Server
2 5 (9.43%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (9.43%) SharePoint
2 5 (9.43%) Skype for Business
3 2 (3.77%) Apache
3 2 (3.77%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (1.89%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 5 (9.43%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (3.77%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 20 (37.74%) AWS
2 19 (35.85%) Azure
3 14 (26.42%) Power Platform
4 10 (18.87%) GCP
5 7 (13.21%) Snowflake
6 6 (11.32%) Power Automate
7 5 (9.43%) Microsoft Copilot
8 3 (5.66%) Amazon EC2
9 2 (3.77%) Amazon S3
9 2 (3.77%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (3.77%) Azure Data Factory
9 2 (3.77%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (3.77%) OCI
9 2 (3.77%) OpenShift
9 2 (3.77%) SaaS
10 1 (1.89%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 1 (1.89%) Google Analytics
10 1 (1.89%) Google Tag Manager
10 1 (1.89%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 6 (11.32%) HTTP
2 5 (9.43%) DHCP
2 5 (9.43%) DNS
2 5 (9.43%) Skype
2 5 (9.43%) Unified Communications
3 3 (5.66%) 2G
3 3 (5.66%) 5G
3 3 (5.66%) Radio Access Network
4 2 (3.77%) 4G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (26.42%) Power BI
2 10 (18.87%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (15.09%) Data Warehouse
4 7 (13.21%) Oracle ODI
4 7 (13.21%) Oracle Reports
4 7 (13.21%) Star Schema
5 6 (11.32%) BigQuery
5 6 (11.32%) Relational Database
6 5 (9.43%) Big Data
7 4 (7.55%) MySQL
7 4 (7.55%) Oracle Database
8 3 (5.66%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (5.66%) ClickHouse
8 3 (5.66%) MongoDB
8 3 (5.66%) NoSQL
8 3 (5.66%) SQL Server
9 2 (3.77%) DynamoDB
9 2 (3.77%) Oracle Database 12c
10 1 (1.89%) Amazon Redshift
10 1 (1.89%) Looker
Development Applications
1 9 (16.98%) Git
2 7 (13.21%) DBeaver
3 6 (11.32%) JIRA
4 4 (7.55%) Oracle APEX
5 2 (3.77%) Jenkins
6 1 (1.89%) Oracle Forms
6 1 (1.89%) SoapUI
General
1 17 (32.08%) Analytical Skills
2 16 (30.19%) Social Skills
3 11 (20.75%) Finance
4 7 (13.21%) Public Sector
5 5 (9.43%) Banking
6 3 (5.66%) Telecoms
7 2 (3.77%) Local Government
7 2 (3.77%) Publishing
7 2 (3.77%) Tech for Good
8 1 (1.89%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 13 (24.53%) Data Engineer
1 13 (24.53%) Developer
2 11 (20.75%) Senior
3 7 (13.21%) Quality Engineer
4 5 (9.43%) Analytics Manager
4 5 (9.43%) Business Intelligence Manager
4 5 (9.43%) Senior Analytics Manager
4 5 (9.43%) Senior Manager
4 5 (9.43%) Wintel Engineer
5 3 (5.66%) Analyst
5 3 (5.66%) ETL Tester
5 3 (5.66%) Senior Developer
5 3 (5.66%) Tester
6 2 (3.77%) Applications Support
6 2 (3.77%) AWS Engineer
6 2 (3.77%) DBA
6 2 (3.77%) Oracle DBA
6 2 (3.77%) Site Engineer
6 2 (3.77%) Software Engineer
6 2 (3.77%) Support Officer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (15.09%) React
2 7 (13.21%) Oracle GoldenGate
2 7 (13.21%) SOAP
3 6 (11.32%) AngularJS
3 6 (11.32%) JMS
3 6 (11.32%) XML
3 6 (11.32%) XSD
4 3 (5.66%) Node.js
5 2 (3.77%) .NET
5 2 (3.77%) REST
6 1 (1.89%) CSS
6 1 (1.89%) GraphQL
6 1 (1.89%) HTML
6 1 (1.89%) JWT
6 1 (1.89%) Kafka
6 1 (1.89%) OAuth
6 1 (1.89%) OAuth2
6 1 (1.89%) Playwright
6 1 (1.89%) PySpark
6 1 (1.89%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 8 (15.09%) Replication
2 5 (9.43%) PKI
3 4 (7.55%) IoT
4 3 (5.66%) Cloud Native
4 3 (5.66%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (3.77%) Mobile App
5 2 (3.77%) NB-IoT
5 2 (3.77%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.89%) Clustering
6 1 (1.89%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (1.89%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.89%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (9.43%) Windows
1 5 (9.43%) Windows Server
2 4 (7.55%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (41.51%) Agile
2 19 (35.85%) Analytics
3 14 (26.42%) Business Intelligence
3 14 (26.42%) ETL
3 14 (26.42%) Test Automation
4 13 (24.53%) CI/CD
5 9 (16.98%) DevOps
6 8 (15.09%) Change Management
6 8 (15.09%) ITIL
6 8 (15.09%) Scrum
7 7 (13.21%) AI
7 7 (13.21%) Dimensional Modelling
7 7 (13.21%) Problem-Solving
8 6 (11.32%) Data Science
8 6 (11.32%) Mentoring
8 6 (11.32%) Migration
8 6 (11.32%) OO
8 6 (11.32%) OOP
8 6 (11.32%) Storytelling
9 5 (9.43%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 23 (43.40%) Python
2 7 (13.21%) JavaScript
3 6 (11.32%) PL/SQL
4 5 (9.43%) PowerShell
4 5 (9.43%) TypeScript
5 3 (5.66%) Java
6 2 (3.77%) C#
6 2 (3.77%) Shell Script
7 1 (1.89%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 16 (30.19%) SC Cleared
1 16 (30.19%) Security Cleared
2 6 (11.32%) Degree
3 5 (9.43%) CCNA
3 5 (9.43%) CCNP
3 5 (9.43%) Cisco Certification
3 5 (9.43%) ITIL Certification
3 5 (9.43%) Master's Degree
3 5 (9.43%) MCSE
3 5 (9.43%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (3.77%) OCA
4 2 (3.77%) OCP
4 2 (3.77%) Oracle Certification
5 1 (1.89%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.89%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (15.09%) Data Quality
2 5 (9.43%) GDPR
2 5 (9.43%) QA
3 1 (1.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.89%) PERC
System Software
1 5 (9.43%) Active Directory
1 5 (9.43%) Microsoft Virtual Server
1 5 (9.43%) Virtual Servers
1 5 (9.43%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (3.77%) Docker
2 2 (3.77%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 5 (9.43%) SCCM
1 5 (9.43%) WSUS
2 4 (7.55%) Terraform
3 3 (5.66%) Ansible
4 2 (3.77%) Data Guard
4 2 (3.77%) Grafana
4 2 (3.77%) Kubernetes
4 2 (3.77%) Oracle RMAN
4 2 (3.77%) Progress Chef
4 2 (3.77%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 20 (37.74%) Microsoft
2 14 (26.42%) Oracle
3 6 (11.32%) Blue Prism
3 6 (11.32%) Google
3 6 (11.32%) ServiceNow
4 5 (9.43%) Cisco
4 5 (9.43%) Databricks
4 5 (9.43%) SolarWinds
4 5 (9.43%) Splunk
4 5 (9.43%) Veeam
4 5 (9.43%) VMware
5 2 (3.77%) BMC
5 2 (3.77%) Remedy
6 1 (1.89%) Facebook
6 1 (1.89%) Salesforce